Today was a bit more stressful, lots of clouds and some pretty ones not working at all.
I planned to go to Bingara and cut across Terry Hai Hai to the plains but in Barraba there was almost no sun and I could see rain in the distance. I headed towards Kaputar but it was a struggle. As I was going to cut to the plains, Ian in the ASH radioed that there was 7kts 10km north of Kaputar, I climbed to 8000 and went through. New goal was Moree but again many dead clouds and I got lowish at 4000ft. The clouds were rather large and I was wasting lots of height to get there and explore to find them dead. I decided to go to that huge one and it paid. 12.5 on the averager the vario needle bent on the stop for most of the climb, in a few minutes I was at 8000ft again.
I thought I'd try Moree and that cloud should still be there on the way back, 2 more dead clouds and I turned back 20km from Moree.
The big thermal was still there but much weaker, then it was just a matter of staying high to get back home. All in all 328 Km.
Ian and Miro flew in the ASH I think they also didn't reach Moree The Newcastle gang progressed in their training and flew Grob around Gunnedah.
Cheers
Jacques
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